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Harris-Perry on 'Burn This B--ch Down': Arson, Looting 'Not Necessarily Violence'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/06/2014 9:51:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Next time you're assembling a criminal defense team, remember to forget Melissa Harris-Perry. On her MSNBC show today, MH-P commented on the news that authorities are considering charges against Michael Brown's stepfather Louis Head, who on the night the grand jury declined to indict, jumped on a car and implored the crowd "burn this mother------ down! Burn this b--ch down!" Numerous buildings were thereafter torched.

Argued Harris-Perry: "arson and looting . . . are not necessarily violence." She added that those crimes should bear a "legal difference" from violence against "bodies." Even if you accept Harris-Perry's premise [I would argue that arson, which brings the real risk of endangering lives, is violent], so what? Assault isn't as bad as murder, either. That doesn't mean you don't prosecute the former, only that the punishment must fit the crime.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: arsonandlooting; blackkk; burnthisbitchdown; demagogicparty; ferguson; kenyanbornmuzzie; louishead; melissaharrisperry; memebuilding; michaelbrown; missouri; msnbc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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1 posted on 12/06/2014 9:51:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Silly assertion by Melissa Harris-Perry. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 12/06/2014 9:52:34 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

this is the same girl who wears tampons as earrings. Something is not quite right in her head.


3 posted on 12/06/2014 9:53:33 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
A 40W bulb masquerading as a spotlight.
4 posted on 12/06/2014 9:54:40 AM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

But show up at a peaceful tea party rally at a park with a Gadson flag, and leave it cleaner than when everyone arrived...

And you are an extremist racist KKK crazy?


5 posted on 12/06/2014 9:55:13 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I guess the person who was killed and burned to a crisp wasn’t necessarily murdered either. (I wonder where she leaves her brain while she’s doing interviews.)


6 posted on 12/06/2014 9:55:42 AM PST by Waryone
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The hyphen bitch needs to lay off the reefer. That shouldn’t even make sense to herself.


7 posted on 12/06/2014 9:56:34 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I am so embarrassed that this worthless hump "teaches" at my alma mater. On the plus side, Newt Gringrich and Andrew Breitbart are (were) fellow alumni.
8 posted on 12/06/2014 9:57:02 AM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Used to be looting was a shootable offense -

Now they’re going to water it down - cause it seems only one color-side is ‘addicted’ to it.

Well, except when all the whites looted and burned after the O.J. acquittal -

oh wait


9 posted on 12/06/2014 9:57:13 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And you, Melissa, aren’t necessarily different from a garden slug, nor are you necessarily intelligent.


10 posted on 12/06/2014 9:57:42 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What next, discussing the finer points of “Rape-Rape”?


11 posted on 12/06/2014 9:58:03 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So, depriving anyone out of the value of anything is not a crime?

Then “personal rights” treating each other equally, under the law, are no longer valid concepts.


12 posted on 12/06/2014 9:58:09 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Alright, Melissa. How about I go burn down your house and all your property? Would you still play dumb then?


13 posted on 12/06/2014 9:59:28 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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14 posted on 12/06/2014 9:59:33 AM PST by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: Army Air Corps

“What next, discussing the finer points of “Rape-Rape”?”

Or what the meaning of, ‘is’ is! *Rolleyes*


15 posted on 12/06/2014 10:01:09 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This black racist is saying black crimes against white people ought to be legal.

You know, as part of reparations and all that stuff.

If they want to maim and kill a white and perhaps steal his property, its street justice and society has no right to interfere with it.


16 posted on 12/06/2014 10:02:04 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: JPG

If you steal my stuff there will be violence

It’s not yours to take because I don’t owe you anything gibmedats. I paid my bill off long ago by give 1/4 to 1/3 of my income to the IRS so your mother could lay on her back and not work...


17 posted on 12/06/2014 10:03:31 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

When you are assaulted you have no way to predict how far your assailant will go, and you have every right to use every force at hand to defend yourself.
Liberals want to break things down by degrees and define an appropriate, to them, response for each degree.
This is the basis for their unending chant of “unarmed”. It is the basis for their hatred of castle doctrine and stand your ground laws, and the 2nd amendment.


18 posted on 12/06/2014 10:06:17 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If officials would do nothing to stop the looting and burning on the first night, how could anyone expect them to prosecute for inciting a riot?


19 posted on 12/06/2014 10:08:18 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I guess mh-p must be thinkin’ kum-by-ya campfires with smores.


20 posted on 12/06/2014 10:09:21 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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